CHESS PLAYER

Leonid Shamkovich

1923 - 2005

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Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич; June 1, 1923 – April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster and chess writer. He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Shamkovich has received more than 22,387 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Shamkovich is the 196th most popular chess player (down from 178th in 2019), the 2,325th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,961st in 2019) and the 28th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 196 out of 461. Before him are Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Vitaly Tseshkovsky, Vladimirs Petrovs, and Jonathan Penrose. After him are Nick de Firmian, Isaac Kashdan, Gyula Sax, Nana Ioseliani, Robert Byrne, and John Owen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 428. Before him are Ivano Blason, George Russell, James Dickey, Kenneth Lane, Vladimir Tendryakov, and Mort Walker. After him are Percy Heath, Sumner Redstone, Robert Craft, Augusto Magli, Ted Stevens, and Valeriya Gnarovskaya. Among people deceased in 2005, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 311. Before him are Enric Gensana, Luis Taruc, Arnold Denker, Milena Hübschmannová, Ihor Rybak, and Stanley Sadie. After him are Percy Heath, Lee Eun-ju, Wendie Jo Sperber, Juan Pedevilla, Ismail Merchant, and Paul Winchell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 2,325 out of 3,761. Before him are Tatyana Averina (1950), Andrei Chesnokov (1966), Oscar Grégoire (1877), Ivan Lepyokhin (1740), Oleg Zhakov (1905), and Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941). After him are Ivan Okhlobystin (1966), Yevgeniya Simonova (1955), Mikhail Kornienko (1960), Boris Mayorov (1938), Vitaly Mutko (1958), and Tamara Lazakovich (1954).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Leonid Shamkovich ranks 28. Before him are Artur Yusupov (1960), Lev Alburt (1945), Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Anatoly Lein (1931), and Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944). After him are Irina Levitina (1954), Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Larissa Volpert (1926), Alexander Morozevich (1977), and Alexander Grischuk (1983).

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